UAE ambassador to Britain ‘disappointed’ as country kept on UK’s travel red list

UAE ambassador to Britain ‘disappointed’ as country kept on UK’s travel red list

The UAE ambassador to Britain, Mansoor Abulhoul, said he was disappointed that the UK has kept the Emirates on its travel red list, despite its highly successful vaccination and testing campaigns.

Under England's traffic light system for international travel, only British citizens and legal residents are allowed into the UK and must stay in mandatory hotel quarantine on arrival.

UK Transport Secretary Grant Shapps on Thursday said the UK would be expanding its travel ban list because of fears of coronavirus variants.